Active shooter

[Talking moose]

Was just watching the news and a new video game is set for release. Called active shooter. It’s setting is...... schools. You can play a person in the swat team or you can be the shooter. I’m kinda shocked that a video game like that was even a thought. I thought grand theft auto was about as classless as video games got but this sets a new level. Smh

[NUK SOO KOW]

This really bugs me. I was in my grad year when Taber had a school shooting. Til this day the memory is very vivid...Hard to see a situation like this made to be so common it’s now in a video game.

[NCC]

Games like this are one of the reasons that school shooters (and the nut in Las Vegas)are able to kill so many people. They practice clearing rooms and systematically mowing down victims playing video games and are well prepared when they mount their assault.

[260 Rem]

As tone deaf and inappropriate as this “game” seems, I guess we won’t be surprised when someone plays the “games don’t kill people” card?

[Twisted Canuck]

I can't ever recall seeing anything in as bad taste as that. Absolutely bottom of the barrel scummy. I guess having mental illness and channeling it into producing a video game is better than committing the act, but who in their right mind markets something so sick and twisted? Jesus wept....I am not enjoying the decline.

[spazzy]

Wow!!! Thats all i have to say , not in a good way either .

[Nyksta]

People are seriously messed up. The entertainment concept needs to stop
Trying to push the envelope on the continuous desensitization to violence. Im not a fan of endless laws for government controlling what we are allowed to say and do, but what the heck is with people so openly going down the path of violence for shock and awe.

[IR_mike]

Originally Posted by NCC

Games like this are one of the reasons that school shooters (and the nut in Las Vegas)are able to kill so many people. They practice clearing rooms and systematically mowing down victims playing video games and are well prepared when they mount their assault.

Read up on the evolution of U.S. army advanced infantry training since the discovery of questionnaire's, and psychology during world war 2.

[Talking moose]

http://abc7chicago.com/entertainment...rents/3524233/

[Trochu]

There are many very disturbing video games out there.

[HunterDave]

I wonder how many parents allow their kids to play it, or worse, buy it for them.

[1899b]

Originally Posted by KGB

I got a few demerits for that word abbreviation a week ago, LOL!! How many of you are getting a warning from the mods now?

The gestapo picks and chooses here with no consistency...

[silverdoctor]

I agree, not in the best taste. But human nature doesn't need games to be murderous and we need to stop making excuses to cover peoples actions.

I was seriously addicted to first person shooter games in the 90's - doom, quake, etc - didn't get the urge to start shooting people. Never been on anti-depressants and such either.

[ReconWilly]

On dopamine.

We have become dissilusioned.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMBsreZyH3U

[ABSteroid]

I find it funny. Clearly it is made to be humorous and offend some people.

[Twisted Canuck]

Originally Posted by ABSteroid

I find it funny. Clearly it is made to be humorous and offend some people.

Well now it makes perfect sense, clearly. I can't wait till they come out with the 'Auschwitz' video game where you can be a guard or incinerator worker, because clearly it will be humorous and made to be offensive, and folks like yourself will find it humorous as Hell. Nothing says I'm a mature, mentally stable adult like laughing at something ghastly and horrific that destroyed lives, right?

[CaberTosser]

I used to play a lot of Counter-Strike many moons ago, and a few other 'first-person shooter' genre games. I think such games are OK but the concept of this one rubs me the wrong way. Without bad taste there cannot be good taste I suppose. Lets hope its not profitable and won't be attempted again as a result.

[ABSteroid]

Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck

Well now it makes perfect sense, clearly. I can't wait till they come out with the 'Auschwitz' video game where you can be a guard or incinerator worker, because clearly it will be humorous and made to be offensive, and folks like yourself will find it humorous as Hell. Nothing says I'm a mature, mentally stable adult like laughing at something ghastly and horrific that destroyed lives, right?

The ancient Greeks enjoyed tragedy and many people consider them a higher culture. Nowadays we like to wail and cry over tragedy like spoiled babies, and we get "offended" if someone else doesn't wail and cry along with us. Do you really think that's mature? What I think is mature is to accept that death and suffering are part of life and that each of us has the potential to inflict that suffering on other humans and almost certainly on other animals. Perhaps the only difference between you or me and a Nazi SS officer or a school shooter is that we lack someone who we hate enough, or the political climate isn't right. I believe it's dangerous for us to be too naive, and humor is a good way to increase awareness and challenge the political correctness that is status quo.

[Twisted Canuck]

Hmmm. That sounds like a clever load of tripe. Because someone doesn't find grotesque, senseless violence amusing (like the highly cultured Greeks would?) hardly makes them naive. Perhaps it just means they have a more finely tuned moral compass.

[expedition]

Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck

Well now it makes perfect sense, clearly. I can't wait till they come out with the 'Auschwitz' video game where you can be a guard or incinerator worker, because clearly it will be humorous and made to be offensive, and folks like yourself will find it humorous as Hell. Nothing says I'm a mature, mentally stable adult like laughing at something ghastly and horrific that destroyed lives, right?

I think ab steroid was referring to the you tube video on dopamine !

[huntinstuff]

Its just another thing i ignore

Like webcams
Beer
Sports
Old cars
Trigonometry
Chicks who arent brunettes
Bicycles
Cats
Cake that isnt chocolate

[Twisted Canuck]

Originally Posted by expedition

I think ab steroid was referring to the you tube video on dopamine !

Missed it, didn't watch it. I understood him to be referring to OP, if I was mistaken my apologies....

[expedition]

Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck

Missed it, didn't watch it. I understood him to be referring to OP, if I was mistaken my apologies....

I think I might be wrong . Oops.

[ABSteroid]

Originally Posted by Twisted Canuck

Hmmm. That sounds like a clever load of tripe. Because someone doesn't find grotesque, senseless violence amusing (like the highly cultured Greeks would?) hardly makes them naive. Perhaps it just means they have a more finely tuned moral compass.

The naivity is the desire to eliminate tragedy from life, and the belief that it is possible to do so. Modern day Western morality, which stems from Christian morality, serves to perpetuate this naivity. Religions denounced reality as "bad" and "evil" and invented a fictitious "afterlife" which would make up for it. Modern atheists and socialists instead look to a peaceful Utopian future to make up for humanity's "ugly" past. Under such beliefs, naive people accept worse conditions in reality believing that it's for their future good. This is convenient for the priests, upper class, or politicians who profit in reality.

Calling violence "senseless" is a way to say that it's not necessary and could be eliminated. But the word has no real meaning in this context. I posit that nothing in life is senseless (or that everything is).

Grotesqueness is a matter of opinion, but likely merely speaks to your level of squeamishness. Nowadays there are people who think chopping down a living tree is grotesque (but inverting your sex organ is not).

[covey ridge]

What's next?

Plantation, where you can be an owner or the free labor?

or

Molester where you get to be the creep or the child?

or my all time favorite

Poachers and landowners.

I actually thought that nothing would surprise me but this

The end must be near!

[Twisted Canuck]

ABSteroid, your intellectual verbiage doesn't really impress me that much. But I have to say, with just the few posts you have made, you sound an awful lot like a recycled banned former AO character....

[CaberTosser]

Originally Posted by covey ridge

What's next?

Plantation, where you can be an owner or the free labor?

or

Molester where you get to be the creep or the child?

or my all time favorite

Poachers and landowners.

I actually thought that nothing would surprise me but this

The end must be near!

At times I too can really identify with Cristopher Walken's character in "Blast From the Past"

[happy honker]

Originally Posted by covey ridge

What's next?

or my all time favorite

Poachers and landowners.

I actually thought that nothing would surprise me but this

Hey... I just downloaded the trial, free version of Poachers and landowners....it wouldn't let me past the 1st level where you drive into the yard to ask for permission...anyone have any cheat codes? especially for 248 ??

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Trochu

There are many very disturbing video games out there.

Yup.
Entertainment comes in many forms.

[Badgerbadger]

It's funny how you guys clutch your pearls over a video game, but when a real tragedy happens you're all like "it's not about the actual tool used to commit the deed!!"

You don't like the game? Don't play it.